Stuart Agnew
John Stuart Agnew (born 30 August 1949) is a British farmer and politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England region for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2009 until 2019, when UKIP dropped to seventh position with 3.42% of the regional vote.
Stuart Agnew | |
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Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party in the European Parliament | |
In office 16 April 2019 – 1 July 2019[1][2] | |
Leader | Gerard Batten |
Preceded by | Ray Finch |
UKIP Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | |
Assumed office 24 July 2014 | |
Leader | Nigel Farage Diane James Paul Nuttall Henry Bolton Gerard Batten Piers Wauchope Richard Braine Patricia Mountain Freddy Vachha Neil Hamilton |
Preceded by | Julia Reid |
Member of the European Parliament for East of England | |
In office 7 June 2009 – 1 July 2019 | |
Preceded by | Jeffrey Titford |
Succeeded by | Michael Heaver |
Personal details | |
Born | John Stuart Agnew 30 August 1949 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
Political party | UK Independence Party |
Alma mater | Royal Agricultural College |
Agnew was born in Norwich, and educated at Gordonstoun School and the Royal Agricultural College.[3] During the 1970s he worked in Rhodesia as a soil conservation officer, as well as being a reserve in the Rhodesian Army. A long-time UKIP member, he is a Norfolk farmer who formerly represented Norfolk on the NFU Council.[4] He sits on the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He was the UKIP candidate in Mid Norfolk at the 2001 general election, in Norfolk North at the 2005 general election,[5] and in Broadland at the 2010 and 2015 general elections.
As UKIP's Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Agnew has described climate change science as "the global warming scam".[6] In the European Parliament in 2015, he stated that plants need carbon dioxide as food, so "if you succeed in decarbonising Europe, our crops will have no natural gas to grow from". Richard A. Betts of the Met Office described this as a misunderstanding, since cutting emissions did not mean reducing existing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.[7]
In the 2017 UKIP leadership election, he was the running-mate of Anne Marie Waters.[8]
In April 2019, Agnew was appointed Deputy Leader of UKIP in the European Parliament following the resignation of Ray Finch, and it was reported that he spoke to the Springbok Club.[9]
References
- "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- "Key dates ahead". BBC News Online. British Broadcasting Corporation. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- 'AGNEW, (John) Stuart', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Election 2005 - Results - Norfolk North". news.bbc.co.uk.
- "My Personal Experiences of the Global Warming Scam". stuartagnewmep.co.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- "Cutting carbon emissions will cause crops to die, warns UKIP". RTCC. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- "UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew will be anti-Islam leadership hopeful Anne Marie Waters' deputy". Eastern Daily Press. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- correspondent, Peter Walker Political (16 April 2019). "Ukip MEP Stuart Agnew addresses pro-apartheid club in London" – via www.theguardian.com.
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